In October, ACM Council approved the publication of the CS 2013 report — an exhaustive 10-year effort championed by ACM's Education Board and IEEE-Computer Society.
Andrew McGettrickPage 5DEPARTMENT: Letter from the President

Every time I see calendar dates like 2014, I feel as if I have been transported by time machine into the future. Isaac Asimov made some remarkably astute projections about 2014 in 1964, so what might he say today?Vinton G. CerfPage 7DEPARTMENT: Letters to the Editor

A paper by Ballard, Demmel, Holtz, and Schwartz considers a fundamental problem, adopting a new perspective on an old algorithm that has for years occupied a peculiar place in the theory and practice of matrix algorithms.Michael W. MahoneyPage 106